katorga
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3ADJ.
increased, permanent
VERB + KATORGA
end
KATORGA + NOUN
diets, starvation
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noun
Penal servitude in a Russian or Soviet labour camp.
Sentenced to ten years of hard labor in the Siberian mines, he defied the Russian tyrant by his funeral oration at the grave of Dmokhovsky, his boldness resulting in an additional fifteen years of katorga.
However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
A tsarist or Soviet labour camp.
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3Sentenced to ten years of hard labor in the Siberian mines, he defied the Russian tyrant by his funeral oration at the grave of Dmokhovsky, his boldness resulting in an additional fifteen years of kat
WiktionaryHowever, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
WiktionaryUnder the Bolsheviks there was going to be an end to the katorga.
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